You do not hear much about the up side of a global pandemic, but Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday was able to inject a note of levity into his daily COVID-19 update.

"I've tried for years to get my three kids to read books — wildly unsuccessfully," Baker said. "My daughter and a friend of hers [recently] decided to start a book club because it would give the two of them plus a number of their friends a reason to chat every night, something to talk about.

Baker made that point to follow up on Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders' discussion of one of the many bad things to come out of the COVID-19 crisis: its impact on mental health.
Sudders used the occasion of Friday's start to National Mental Health Month to talk about the resources available to Massachusetts residents and the importance of maintaining one's mental health during the pandemic now.
 All the details are at iBerkshires.com now.

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